Reflections
2020 Subscription Packages
Is this you? Seeking to deepen your life through spiritual practice rooted in Christian Wisdom? Yearning for invitations to solitude and silence, to see beauty all...
A Gentle Stirring of Life & Hope
A Gentle Stirring of Life and Hope I’m haunted by this image. Before you read more about it, take the time to explore the entire image with your eyes: Notice the shapes, the different figures and symbols.... See if there is any part of the image that asks for your...
Starlight Stories for Advent 2019
You’ll meet John’s childhood friend, Mary’s mother Anna, Joseph who is ready to flee, a shepherd who holds her post, and even a story from the Star herself. The stories are wonderful. Each one brings richness and depth to the human spiritual journey in the...
Voting Early
A Story about Voting By Cathy MacLean I have voted since I was five years old! Impossible you say. Here’s how it was. Uncle Eddy always took my Grandmother to vote even though she lived with us. The problem was that she was Conservative and our household...
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[Romans] EveryWhere & EveryWhen
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans...
Stroll Meditations
By Corina Bolo May 11, 2019 This morning I took my first Stroll of this season and it was along some used-to-be familiar streets. I am staying for a bit with my Mom in my childhood home and this morning's walk took me past the WayMarks of street signs that I knew...
Deciding to Stroll in the Rain
by Pam Harrison Today is going to mark a change of attitude in my way of walking. The weather has kept me from walking three days on this journey, I miss walking so much. I reflected on your words and enjoy the day, but something is missing. So I am going to “walk in...
Welcome to Stroll for Your Soul
Welcome to Stroll for Your Soul I'm Janice, host of the Prayer Bench, and one of your guide. I'll be Strolling in Riverview, New Brunswick in Canada. I'm delighted to be partnering on this series with Caroline Bindon from the Whangaparaoa Peninsula in Auckland, New...
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[Acts] The Clash of Belonging & Believing
"If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he replied, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” Acts 8:37 Turn to Acts 8. Read out verse 37. If you are reading a newer translation of the Bible, You may find a gap between verse 36 and verse 38. Verse 37...
Top 17 Things Prayer Bench Friends Say about Resources
The Prayer Bench is entering its fifth year. I decided to take a morning and read through the long file of evaluations and compile the top 17 things said repeatedly about using Prayer Bench resources. I ended up with 17 similar phrases. I thought 15 would...
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[John] So Loved
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." -- John 3:16 Our first hint of incarnation comes in the creation story. God makes all this stuff out of darkness: a fire of stars,...
2019 Subscription Packages
Is this you? Seeking to deepen your life through spiritual practice rooted in Christian Wisdom? Yearning for invitations to solitude and silence, to see beauty all...
Say Hello: Waking Up Email Retreat
Hello all who signed up for the Advent Email Retreat series, Waking Up. Welcome! I trust you received your Welcome Email this morning. I invite you you to "Leave a Reply" below and share you name and where you are from. It helps us have a sense of our community, even...
“Lost in a Carving”
Duane MacEwen carved the Nativity set that is featured in the Prayer Bench Small Group Study and the Advent Email Retreat. Here is his biography. I was born and raised on PEI and began carving around 1998. I have been competing in...
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[Luke] Imagine with Me
And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus." - Luke 5:19 NKJV Come, imagine with me! What would it feel like in a crowded...
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[Mark] All in a Day
“The disciples gathered around Jesus, and told him all they had done and taught.” - Mark 6:30 What a day. The disciples return from their mission of teaching and curing the sick. They gather around Jesus ‘telling him all they had done and taught.’ Jesus suggests they...
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[Matthew] Here for the Finding
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing. -- Matthew 13:34 Like an artist who doesn’t explain her work but shows it to you, Jesus tells parables and expects his hearers (and we are hearers more than listeners!) to...
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[Malachi] O Radiant Dawn
"But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall." - Malachi 4:2 The last book in the Hebrew Bible has God's Messenger dealing with...
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